Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
The war… was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.
War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.
What a cruel thing war is… to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.
War is a defeat for humanity.
The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.
The great object is that every man be armed.
Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.
The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
